Evacuation level notices are displayed for motorists traveling Highway 126 near Rainbow, Ore. Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Rainbow was under a level 1 evacuation notice while nearby McKenzie Bridgte was under a level 2 notice. (Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP)
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The West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?
DENVER — Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park.